On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday 2009-03-06 18:02, Fred Moyer wrote: >>On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Fred Moyer wrote: >>>> I'm developing a connection tracking module for the 2.6.23.17 kernel >>>> using the nf_conntrack helper examples (actually porting a nat module >>>> I had for 2.4.30) and am trying to use the nfsim test framework >>>> instead of my previous crude method of sending packets through the >>>> machine. >>> >>> Sorry, nfsim currently lacks of maintainer. >> >>Ok, I'll make an effort to fix that issue and submit a patch. >> >>What is the recommended alternative for testing connection helper modules? > > Testing them in a real world - perhaps virtual machines though - setup :-) I've had great success developing and testing with VMWare Fusion on a mac laptop. The reboot time on an oops is maybe two minutes, about the same as my metal testing server, except lacking the fan noise and ability to live on my laptop. I looked through the nfsim unit tests - very nice design, reminds me of a lot of the perl code testing I do with Test::More. It seems like a testing approach that would lead to faster development than pushing packets. Normally to test I 'tail -f /var/log/kernel', and have tcpdump running, but if I oops then I lose all that state. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
